A tiny home called a Tiny Drop rolled into Vicksburg Thursday night on the “Just a Tiny Tin Bucket” tour the home is taking from Texas to Vermont.

Shelly Pottorf from the school of architecture at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas, designed the 150 square foot home that is outfitted with solar panels, a composting toilet, on demand water heater and LED lighting among other efficient technologies.

“You can take those things and build a larger scale home using the same materials,” said Angela Turner, community development housing coordinator. “They’re trying to get people to see how you can cut your energy costs by using some of these materials.”

The point of the tour is to show how sustainable materials can be used to build a house of any size, and it’s not really about the fact that the home is tiny.

“Our goal is decidedly not to convince everyone that they should build their home on a trailer,” Pottorf said in an email. “Quite the contrary, that doesn’t really make sense in most cases. We built this prototype on a trailer so that we could move it around to expose as many people as possible to high performance construction and systems.”

Pottorf said the tour is meant for builders and realtors to learn how to build resilient, inexpensive and energy-efficient homes.

“We want people to be clear that we built this as a prototype for high performance, small footprint, affordable home construction,” Pottorf said.

The Tiny Drop hit some bumps in the road with radiator problems on its way to Vicksburg and did not get to town until nearly 8 p.m. Thursday night, but a group of Realtors were there to welcome Pottorf at the gazebo in front of the Blue Room Blues Marker when she got to town.

About 15 Realtors from the Vicksburg Warren County Board of Realtors spent the evening cleaning the lawn around the gazebo, which the board built in the 1980s. The group cut grass and tree limbs for three hours Thursday in preparation for the Tiny Drop’s arrival.

“We raked leaves, cleaned up the flowerbeds, planted flowers, put mulch around and just cleaned it up because leaves were everywhere,” said Sybil Carraway of the Vicksburg Warren County Board of Realtors.

The Tiny Drop is scheduled to be at The Home Depot, 50 Halls Ferry Park Road, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday.

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